Nuno Soares & Christen Mirth

Christen Mirth: Christen is a group leader at the School of Biological Sciences at Monash University. Her work is focussed on the regulation and evolution of developmental plasticity.

Patrícia Beldade: Patrícia is a group leader at the University of Toulouse
in France and at the Gulbenkian Institute in Portugal. Her research
integrates methods and approaches from evolutionary and developmental
biology, as well as from ecology and genetics, to understand the mechanisms underlying phenotypic diversity, within and among species. This includes the study of the impact of the environment on phenotypic
variation.

Nuno Soares: Nuno is a Ph.D. student at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência in Portugal. He is interested in how species adapt to new ecological niches.